C. Gordon Fullerton

<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2>
<h3>Early years and education</h3>
Born October 11, 1936, in <a href="/facts/Rochester,_New_York/dfEIYtDu">Rochester, New York</a>, Fullerton graduated from <a href="/facts/Grant_High_School_(Portland,_Oregon)/24U1Fr71">Ulysses S. Grant High School</a>, <a href="/facts/Portland,_Oregon/wwBx1Hrv">Portland, Oregon</a>, in 1953.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2">2</a> He received <a href="/facts/Bachelor_of_Science/9n3gvDf7">Bachelor of Science</a> and <a href="/facts/Master_of_Science/5xKwvXjm">Master of Science</a> degrees in <a href="/facts/Mechanical_engineering/cbId4fye">mechanical engineering</a> from the <a href="/facts/California_Institute_of_Technology/3FPcp7BL">California Institute of Technology</a>, <a href="/facts/Pasadena,_California/Y6AEEI03">Pasadena, California</a>, in 1957 and 1958, respectively.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a>

<h3>Air Force career</h3>
Fullerton entered the U.S. Air Force in July 1958 after working as a mechanical design engineer for <a href="/facts/Hughes_Aircraft_Company/NURPFI17">Hughes Aircraft Company</a>, <a href="/facts/Culver_City,_California/FTH560p1">Culver City, California</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a>
After primary and basic flight school, he was trained as an <a href="/facts/North_American_F-86_Sabre/U2RSfjqu">F-86</a> interceptor pilot, and later became a <a href="/facts/Boeing_B-47_Stratojet/0yIq9SWy">B-47</a> bomber pilot at <a href="/facts/Davis-Monthan_Air_Force_Base/AG8lNlvp">Davis-Monthan Air Force Base</a>, <a href="/facts/Arizona/6ayM3swJ">Arizona</a>. In 1964 he was chosen to attend the Air Force <a href="/facts/Aerospace_Research_Pilot_School/11vNWoyU">Aerospace Research Pilot School</a> (now the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School), <a href="/facts/Edwards_Air_Force_Base/MwAW8n6a">Edwards Air Force Base</a>, California. Upon graduation he was assigned as a test pilot with the Bomber Operations Division at <a href="/facts/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base/6EWFomSD">Wright-Patterson Air Force Base</a>, <a href="/facts/Ohio/YutCnTlh">Ohio</a>. In 1966, Fullerton was selected for and served as a flight crew member for the Air Force <a href="/facts/Manned_Orbiting_Laboratory/hx5gC4Ic">Manned Orbiting Laboratory</a> (MOL) program until its termination in 1969.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a>

<h3>NASA career</h3>

Fullerton was part of <a href="/facts/NASA_Astronaut_Group_7/CQr4Jzez">NASA Astronaut Group 7</a> in September 1969 after the cancellation of the MOL program. After assignment to the NASA Johnson Space Center as an astronaut, Fullerton served on the support crews for the <a href="/facts/Apollo_14/SuokTzAu">Apollo 14</a>, <a href="/facts/Apollo_15/8h2QMY4z">15</a>, <a href="/facts/Apollo_16/XQY3CDnf">16</a>, and <a href="/facts/Apollo_17/5szGEz7n">17</a> lunar missions.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a>
In 1977, Fullerton was assigned to one of the two-man flight crews which piloted the Space Shuttle prototype <a href="/facts/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise/HhtH1PfY">Enterprise</a> during the <a href="/facts/Approach_and_Landing_Tests/ufeYyTMS">Approach and Landing Tests</a> Program at Dryden that same year.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a>
Fullerton was the pilot on the eight-day <a href="/facts/STS-3/oFdLf7LR">STS-3</a> <a href="/facts/Space_Shuttle/7BoyetEv">Space Shuttle</a> orbital flight test mission March 22–30, 1982. Launched from the <a href="/facts/Kennedy_Space_Center/zmwszuPr">Kennedy Space Center</a>, <a href="/facts/Florida/cF245A3Q">Florida</a>, the mission exposed the orbiter <a href="/facts/Space_Shuttle_Columbia/uF51RXWM">Columbia</a> to extremes in thermal stress and tested the 50-foot (15 m) <a href="/facts/Canadarm/zzemGb81">Canadarm</a> used to grapple and maneuver payloads to orbit.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a> STS-3 landed at <a href="/facts/Northrup_Strip/0xsKCzMI">Northrup Strip</a>, <a href="/facts/White_Sands,_New_Mexico/x7g6PSP6">White Sands, New Mexico</a>, because <a href="/facts/Rogers_Dry_Lake/DIGprrwj">Rogers Dry Lake</a> at Edwards AFB was wet due to heavy seasonal rains.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a>
Fullerton was commander of the <a href="/facts/STS-51-F/znwAzdNu">STS-51-F</a> "Spacelab 2" mission, launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 29, 1985. This mission, with the orbiter <a href="/facts/Space_Shuttle_Challenger/K4dGtVCC">Challenger</a>, was the first pallet-only <a href="/facts/Spacelab/R4FDfaCW">Spacelab</a> mission and the first to operate the Spacelab Instrument Pointing System (IPS). It carried 13 major experiments in the fields of astronomy, solar physics, ionospheric science, life science, and a super fluid helium experiment. The mission ended August 6, 1985, with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a>

<h3>Research test pilot career</h3>
Fullerton served as project pilot on the NASA/<a href="/facts/Convair_990/D5PeSqzm">Convair 990</a> aircraft which has been modified as a Landing Systems Research Aircraft to test Space Shuttle landing gear components.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a> Additionally, Fullerton was also project pilot on <a href="/facts/McDonnell_Douglas_F/A-18_Hornet/hsKrCHym">F-18</a> Systems Research Aircraft, a test bed to develop new flight control actuators, fiber optic control systems, and other advanced aircraft technology.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a>
As the project pilot on the <a href="/facts/Propulsion_Controlled_Aircraft/a5GqEUa7">Propulsion Controlled Aircraft</a> program, he successfully landed an <a href="/facts/F-15_Eagle/8ublq0RC">F-15</a> and an <a href="/facts/MD-11/0KRhWtN2">MD-11</a> with all control surfaces fixed, using only engine thrust modulation for control.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a>
In addition to these activities, Fullerton was a project pilot on a number of other research programs at Dryden. Among them were the <a href="/facts/C-140/b6m7TXS8">C-140</a> Jetstar Laminar Flow Control, <a href="/facts/General_Dynamics_F-111_Aardvark/oCScquIC">F-111</a> Mission Adaptive Wing, <a href="/facts/F-14/Ana2Iw4D">F-14</a> Variable Sweep Flow Transition, Space Shuttle orbiter drag chute and F-111 crew module parachute tests with the <a href="/facts/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress/uIXzSmPy">B-52</a>, and <a href="/facts/X-29/rN45tLv9">X-29</a> vortex flow control.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a> As project pilot on the B-52 launch aircraft, Fullerton was involved in tests to develop a new F-111 crew module recovery system. He also flew the B-52 for the first six mid-air launchings of the commercially developed <a href="/facts/Pegasus_rocket/w8swDwhu">Pegasus space vehicle</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16">16</a> 
Fullerton was one of two NASA pilots who flew the Russian-built <a href="/facts/Tupolev_Tu-144/1pFjI2rg">Tu-144LL</a> supersonic aircraft used in a joint high speed research program.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17">17</a>
With over 16,000 hours of flying time, Fullerton piloted 135 different types of aircraft, including full qualification in the <a href="/facts/T-33_Shooting_Star/2bG1rskp">T-33</a>, <a href="/facts/T-34_Mentor/EEjmBp45">T-34</a>, <a href="/facts/T-37_Tweet/3tvGaAYV">T-37</a>, <a href="/facts/North_American_T-39_Sabreliner/zatuu6K2">T-39</a>, F-86, <a href="/facts/F-101/g4U1gj33">F-101</a>, <a href="/facts/F-106/TEFF4otV">F-106</a>, F-111, F-14, X-29, <a href="/facts/KC-135/hRmEJPJv">KC-135</a>, C-140, and B-47.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18">18</a> After joining Dryden as a research pilot, Fullerton piloted nearly all the research and support aircraft flown at the facility, including the <a href="/facts/Northrop_T-38_Talon/P8WVlV8W">T-38</a>, F-18, F-15, B-52, NASA/Convair 990, 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, and the <a href="/facts/DC-8/V4E0Jqov">DC-8</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19">19</a>

<h3>Later years and death</h3>
Fullerton retired in 2007.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20">20</a> He suffered a <a href="/facts/Stroke/DwpjdzY0">stroke</a> in 2009 and was cared for in a facility in <a href="/facts/Lancaster,_California/cWkV0hVn">Lancaster, California</a>, where he died from complications on August 21, 2013, aged 76.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21">21</a>

<h2 id="awards-and-honors">Awards and honors</h2>
<h3>Military and government awards</h3>
<table><tbody><tr><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Defense_Distinguished_Service_Medal/N3GqyVjA">Defense Distinguished Service Medal</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22">22</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Defense_Superior_Service_Medal/D6ISn8HT">Defense Superior Service Medal</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23">23</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="/facts/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(U.S.)/vQ8IFj88">Distinguished Flying Cross</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24">24</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="/facts/NASA_Distinguished_Service_Medal/aAAQxl7F">NASA Distinguished Service Medal</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25">25</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="/facts/NASA_Exceptional_Service_Medal/Sn4jQDew">NASA Exceptional Service Medal</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26">26</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="/facts/NASA_Space_Flight_Medal/xFmEngsY">NASA Space Flight Medal</a> (1983 and 1985)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27">27</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<h3>Other awards and honors</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Iven_C._Kincheloe_Award/uNzYM2MS">Iven C. Kincheloe Award</a> from the <a href="/facts/Society_of_Experimental_Test_Pilots/7X6yhFRl">Society of Experimental Test Pilots</a>, 1978<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28">28</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/United_States_Astronaut_Hall_of_Fame/TcGKQutj">U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame</a>, 2005 inductee<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29">29</a></li>
<li>General <a href="/facts/Thomas_D._White/k0Mkp68c">Thomas D. White</a> Space Trophy, 1977<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30">30</a></li>
<li>Haley Space Flight Award from the <a href="/facts/American_Institute_of_Aeronautics_and_Astronautics/fVbwtwh8">American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31">31</a></li>
<li>Golden Plate Award of the <a href="/facts/Academy_of_Achievement/JLFsXAjM">American Academy of Achievement</a>, 1982<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32">32</a></li>
<li>Certificate of Achievement Award from the <a href="/facts/Soaring_Society_of_America/v1eroWMY">Soaring Society of America</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33">33</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ray_E._Tenhoff_Award/E4zDnJYI">Ray E. Tenhoff Award</a> from the <a href="/facts/Society_of_Experimental_Test_Pilots/7X6yhFRl">Society of Experimental Test Pilots</a> in 1992 and 1993.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34">34</a></li>
<li>Fellow of the <a href="/facts/Society_of_Experimental_Test_Pilots/7X6yhFRl">Society of Experimental Test Pilots</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35">35</a></li>
<li>Member, <a href="/facts/Tau_Beta_Pi/SRgvkL2x">Tau Beta Pi</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36">36</a></li>
<li>Honorary member of the National World War II Glider Pilot Association<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37">37</a></li>
<li>Fellow of the <a href="/facts/American_Astronautical_Society/Gz2eImQD">American Astronautical Society</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38">38</a></li></ul>
Fullerton was inducted with Lousma into the <a href="/facts/International_Space_Hall_of_Fame/AGU4Xt0Q">International Space Hall of Fame</a> during a ceremony with the governor of New Mexico in 1982 for their involvement in the STS-3 mission.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39">39</a> The governor also presented them with the International Space Hall of Fame's Pioneer Award, and were the second group to receive this award.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40">40</a>

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